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What does the bill really indicate for India's future?
Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Dec 05 2019
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What does the bill really indicate for India's future?
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The Citizenship Amendment Bill proposes granting Indian citizenship to Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who have spent six years in the country, but have no documents.

The Wire's senior editor Arfa Khanum Sherwani discusses the contentious bill in detail with The Wire's deputy editor Sangeeta Barua Pisharoty.

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